The new ASUS ZenBook Pro 15 features a 100% Adobe RGB 4K display

ASUS has unveiled its new ZenBook Pro 15: a lightweight laptop that packs some seriously impressive specs, including a 4K factory-calibrated display and, despite its thin 18.9mm frame, up to an 8th-generation Intel Core i9-8950HK hexa-core processor.

If the Intel Core i9 chip—which is fairly uncommon in laptops—is a bit too rich for your blood, buyers can choose a quad-core Core i5 or six-core Core i7 processor instead. RAM can be customized to either 8GB or 16GB, and storage maxes out at 1TB SSD. Finally, graphics are delivered via an NVIDIA GTX 1050 with up to 4GB of GDDR5 memory, and a dual-fan cooling system with three heat pipes promises to efficiently keep the laptop cool during a heavy editing session.

Despite the high-end hardware, the company claims the model's 71Wh battery coupled with "clever ASUS thermal engineering" results in a runtime of up to 9.5 hours per charge. The laptop also features fast charging for bringing the battery from 0 to 60% in 49 minutes.

I do just fine on a 15.6" 4K display. Of course I also have my screen set to 200% view, but it's still gorgeous and I have no issues processing my photos on it. I love it! Can't take a 27" monitor with me everywhere when I travel. I love the convenience of a laptop.

I doubt this laptop can keep the i9-8950HK cool enough to have it clock higher than a i7-8850h would anyway.. It will probably be laughable how it hugs 90C thermal throttling threshold during all CPU heavy benchmarks.

I would love to see it not happen, but very likely that is exactly what will happen.

@dprived prev, I've been editing my photos on a 15.6" 4K display for a year now with no problems. I set it to 200% view, which doesn't seem to affect the viewing quality of the images at all and everything on the screen still looks beautiful.

The spec and price of these types of Windows laptops is making me seriously consider moving back to that platform from the Mac I currently own (purchased in 2013) and now almost unbearably slow when it comes to photo processing.

The original color gamut defined by the NTSC (National Television Standards Committee) in 1953 was a fairly wide gamut color space. But the green phosphor required for the CRTs used was too dim and too "slow" (it was "long persistence" and you could get green trailing on fast motion). So that green phosphor was replaced with one that was brighter and "faster", but it was also a rather yellowish green compared to the original green. That eventually became enshrined as the sRGB color space, which is a narrower gamut colorspace, -mainly in the greens and cyans, that we're somehow still stuck with depsite CRT monitors having gone the way of the dinosaur.

The Adobe RGB color space has a wider gamut, mainly because it uses a green point close to or identical with the 1953 NTSC green in order to better encompass in RGB the CMYK color gamut. (Note that the opposite is not true, as there are RGB colors that cannot be defined in CMYK.)

I'm getting the brand-new fully loaded i9 Dell XPS 15. It is 4 pounds, has the new 6-Core, 12 Thread Coffee Lake H CPU and faster GeForce 1050 Ti Graphics. 32 GB RAM. 15.6 inch, IPS, 100% Adobe RGB, 4K touch screen. 1 TB PCIe M.2 SSD. $2500. You can't beat it right now. That is a much better machine. I'm a travel photographer and have been using the Surface Pro for two years which is half the weight of this new Dell, but only a 12 inch screen and much slower processor. MS is not keeping up on the latest Intel processors and waits too long between model updates. That is the big problem with Apple. Dell and HP are much quicker on their feet. It's all about the processor, screen and RAM now. Update fast or die. https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums

Thanks. Yep, when you talk about a laptop, just like a camera, you are going to rub someone the wrong way. Besides, I changed my. I think instead I will get the newest XPS 13. That 15 is big. I love the little Surface Pro, but don't need a tablet. I have never once separated the keyboard from the Surface Pro, so why not just get a clamshell? I need a laptop, not a hybrid that becomes a tablet.

They refused to sell me a keyset (or any parts) for my ROG laptop, and offered me only their two "service centers" in the US. The service center in NY was "walk-in only". Yeah, you have to travel to NY to hand them your machine in person. You can send your machine to California, where it will take weeks or months. Yeah, for my keyboard, they estimated $800. I bought a keyboard for $15, and it installed in minutes. So yeah...no.

Yeah, both Asus and Acer have a terrible reputation for support. And they ship machines with really screwed up drivers for components in the laptop. Then don't post updated drivers for whatever model laptop on their websites.

Agreed, great motherboards, crap laptops. My last laptop before switching to a MBPro in 2012 was an Asus. It physically came apart, bezel and display hinges, in less than a year. Asus refused to repair it under warranty. Never again. And now Apple requires you to have a bag of dongles because they've completely F'ed up their concept of I/O and consumer convenience.

I had a Asus laptop in the same range bought in 2012, I traveled a lot with it and used it for After effects / premiere pro / photoshop / lightroom / various 3d programs, it never got hot it was at least as sturdy as my MBP that I had before it, unfortunately my kid thought he could use the screen to lift himself up onto a table and broke the cover from the hinges. I had to buy a new one, and gave the asus to my brother later, he fixed it and is still using it, so I dont know what you are talking about. :)

The GPU was a Geforce GT750m it used the geforce experience program, so it had to be updated exactly as often as any other nvidia gpu on the planet in the time that i had it, same goes for my current GTX 980m. :)

To be honest, I did not have any driver related problems with the computer. It became a problem when the screen was broken off with force, that was not on Asus, that was on me for leaving my computer unattended. The fact that it is still in heavy use after over 5 years does say a lot about the quality of it in my opinion. :)

That's good to read. Many report driver problems with Asus machines. Now of course, with work, and going one at time, one can find more updated drivers for X component. But that takes time and usually say 30 dollars to purchase a 12 month subscription to software that connects to databases with updated obscure drivers.

And here I thought this would finally be a good mobile workstation for my editing needs. Until I saw a maximum of 16 gigs of RAM. How is this "Pro"?

I just don't get it. What's the point of designing a powerful machine with the latest processor, a dedicated GPU and a 4K factory-calibrated screen just to cripple all of that with measly 16 gigs of RAM, which has not been enough for any serious work since the advent of 4K content? Do these people ever try using the products they design? Have they ever attempted at editing any medium-length 4K project in Premiere with 16GB of memory?

I bought a laptop with 16 gigs five years ago and it wasn't all that great for serious work then. Nowadays, when 4K60 is becoming mainstream it almost sounds like a bad joke. Also, 8 gigs as an option? Do you really need a calibrated 4K screen to browse facebook and watch youtube? Because those are pretty much the only things you are going to do with that much memory.

Not all 16GB RAM is equal....your RAM from 5 years ago would be a lot slower then what is in this machine. Besides, as a photographer who doesn't do video a machine like this one would be perfect for me.

Many laptops are limited to 16 GB of RAM mainly because the manufacturers, in order to save space, only allow for one DIMM module per each of the two memory channels. So you only get to have two DIMMs of 8 GB each = 16 GB. Most desktops with dual channel memory give you two DIMM slots per channel, so you can have four DIMMs. So if you're talking about 8 GB DIMMs then you can have 32 GB, -or more if the particular motherboard supports larger DIMMs.

@Dheorl, literally every single type of content creation would benefit from more RAM. Sure, some don't REQUIRE it per se, but that's no justification. You don't put a 1,3l engine into Jeep Grand Cherokee because some buyers mostly drive around the city.

RAM is essential. Especially today, when pretty much every creator dabbles in video work, has a youtube channel, etc. By bottlenecking the machine with puny 16 gigs they are going to lose 2/3 of their potential customer base. And no, OpenCL doesn't solve the problem whatsoever.

Pretty much every creator dabbles in video work? Are you being serious or just having a bit of a giggle? I mean you've been making clearly ridiculous statements from the start, so it wouldn't surprise me.

And no, openCL doesn't solve the problem, I never claimed it did, but when I'm computing something entirely on my GPU (because it's faster to do so, so why wouldn't I be) I'm much more concerned what the VRAM is than the general system RAM. I'd happily take a knock from 32GB down to 16GB for a substantial increase in my VRAM. The lack of 8GB VRAM would be more likely to put me off this machine than the 16GB RAM.

@Dheorl, you may ignore the reality as much as you want. You may ignore the fact that most relevant photographers, artists and content creators also work with video in one form or the other (if they want to stay relevant, that is). You may fool yourself about 16GB RAM being enough in 2018 professional-oriented workstation machine. You may even pretend to live in the world where all major software solutions moved the computing entirely to GPU. That won't change the reality.

Also, here's a hint: questions like "are you being serious?" aren't arguments. This pretentious act of surprise does nothing but emphasize the complete lack of counter-arguments from your side. Couple that with you attacking a person instead of the "ridiculous arguments" said person makes and we have a typical example of "how to argue on the internet" demagogy. Sorry if I refuse to participate in it any further. Have a nice day.

I haven't once attacked you as a person, merely called the statements you're making ridiculous.

I don't need to fool myself about anything. I do content creation as a job, don't do video and am perfectly happy using a machine with 16GB of RAM. Sure, you may occasionally get a person who fulfils all you're criteria and there are other machines for them, but to claim that this machine is completely unusable for any creative professional is, as previously stated, ridiculous.

@S Yu, it's not a gaming laptop. GTX1050 is plenty powerful for pretty much any work you do on a laptop including 4K editing. 16GB of RAM on the other hand is not. Opening a serious 4K project in Adobe Premiere eats up those 16 gigs pretty much immediately.

It's really weird to see all those high-end laptops with latest processors, 4K screens, costing thousands of bucks... while offering measly 16 gigs of RAM. It's just stupid.

@S Yu, it all depends on the complexity of the particular effect. You can always come up with something so complex even a 1080 ti would struggle to preview it in real time. But generally you only see marginal gains in editing performance as you go up from 1050, but huge hits to battery life and heat emissions. So 1050 really is good compromise of power and battery life if you don't need to game.

Am I the only one that thinks the 4k [even when it's the slightly faux 4k UHD spec as here] is a bit redundant on a laptop?

I mean what's it's purpose? Even if you view really, really close up you're unlikely to be able to discern more detail than something that has a pixel density that's a 'mere' 300-odd ppi. I can see the point of a 5k screen because it would allow you to edit 4k footage at full size with room for controls, but if you're simply viewing UHD... the screen's too small isn't it?

Full ARGB is nice, but the resolution of devices like this are more good for bragging rights than anything else.

@Chris2210, I love my 15.6" 4K laptop screen (Lenovo Yoga 720). I view it at 200% of course because otherwise text would be tiny, but photos and video look amazing on it even at 200% or more. I don't ever want to go back to 1080p. That and the convenience of a take-it-anywhere laptop is awesome.

I kind of wish I hadn't become so accustomed to Apple OS. Back when I got my MacBook pro it was the only viable option for what I wanted. Now there's so many good windows laptops coming out that are definite possibilities for when I need to upgrade, but the OS just feels a bit clunky sometimes.

I shifted back to Windows after 14 years of OSX because of the crappy toys the MBPs are became, and I'm actually happier with Win 10. Every time I use my iMac 5k (the only Apple machine really good for photographers, in my opinion) I miss some features from the Win laptop.

Personal preference I guess. I've currently got different machines running both, in fact I've also got the same machine running both, and prefer OSX. Fortunately though my MBP is still doing fine for all my photography (and gaming, and 3D design) needs, so no rush to upgrade. Hopefully by the time I need a new one the MBP will be a more serious contender again.

Other options with 100% Adobe gamut : Dell XP 15 (2018 9570 4k version), and the Gigabyte AERO 15x. Both have 100% Adobe gamut and full sd card slots. The gigabyte has a 1070 graphic card option, "X-Rite Pantone Certified Display". UHS-II Card Reader, and a RJ-45 Network jack (rare on thin laptops).Nice to have three 100% Adobe laptop options. I am still using a 13" Sony Vaio Z from 2009. The Gigabyte one looks good to me.

I am not familiar with the screen on the x1 Yoga but the Dell Alienware 13" OLED has a wide gamut but does not calibrate well. I have seen the Alienware screen in person and it looks great for movies and games. Very vivid screen with dark blacks like a plasma screen. If the Yoga can calibrate well it would be nice.

Not just the display need the calibration, you need to as well calibrate camera and printer, but that is what almost everyone knows who even checks wikipedia page about the topic. But what most will forget totally is that you need to as well calibrate your working environment. Meaning your room lighting, your room walls, your table... everything needs to be set to middle gray. The Windows desktop needs to be middle gray too, so no wallpapers, no bright icons etc. You need to get rid of all colors and get to middle gray in everything if you are at all serious for color calibration. And how many can do or is willing to do that? The difference is huge when you are in calibrated room with calibrated display compared if you have everything else calibrated but the room.

But if you are sending files to anyone else, forget the calibration devices, just place a white paper on screen and adjust your screen to give a pure white and you are good to go.

@ Dheorl - It is more accurate to say that you "profile" the camera. "Calibration" is something you do when you actively adjust settings on a device. A camera (when shot in RAW) has almost no real "calibration" available, as it is just recording the raw data. Adding a "profile" into the workflow allows a person to make changes to this raw data after capture.

Unfortunately, you see people use the terms interchangeably, which is wrong. However, it is so ubiquitous that you might as well get used to it.

Here's a prime example, from DP itself, that uses the terms interchangeably but does a good job off explaining the process of profiling a camera.

@Per Inge Oestmoen Seeking perfection is like looking for a holy grail. You won't get ideal color without ideal equipment and ideal lighting conditions. No need for such hassle. Photography is art, and deviations are more than tolerable, tho you must know what you are doing. One should play with light. The color perfection is needed only if you are photographing photographs, paintings and such.

@kpaddler Only for color critical work. One of the reasons I made a switch to Mac is to not have to do that. New iMac screens are fantastic, and more than enough for my print and design purposes.

@all People seem to ignore the fact that you actually do learn to compensate the image. If I see the histogram, the image and have a gamut measurement of a display, knowing the colors is no biggie.

@mut - You do it your way, I'll do it mine. To blanket say it is not needed is to be rather obnoxious in the level of self-centeredness you bring to a subjective activity that millions of other people also do.

Personally, whether it be skin colors or tones of paint on a car, I find that beginning with a faithful reproduction of colors as they were at the time of shooting is, without a doubt, the best starting point for image editing. To do that, the most straightforward process involves periodic calibrating and profiling of your monitor, as well as profiling your camera.

That's sort of the thing really though isn't it; being happy with what you use. Displays don't need to be calibrated. I didn't have one for years and I still enjoyed my photography, had some of my photos used for commercial purposes and so on. Sure, it may be beneficial for some people to have a calibrated display, and you may enjoy working on one more, but that doesn't make it a need.

@Dheorl - Nobody is arguing that displays must be calibrated and profiled to be used for the enjoyment of photography. The argument here really boils down to nothing more than some "computer systems integrator" talking BS and then trying to argue that he knows more, and shouldn't be contended with.

@Suntan I have years of calibration of camera, lenses and screens behind me. The color was an issue before, because screens were terrible, and TBH, no level of calibration would fix most of them. Today, a color precision problem is evident only of cheap devices, and for those there is no help anyways. In my opinion image quality balance across devices is reached on Apple systems, and for most people there is no need in further hassle around it. If you think you need calibration, be my guest, but sooner or later you will understand that it is mostly superfluous (that especially if you utilize color targets).

@kpaddler (Please do not yell.) What you say is not correct. Please see upper response. Regarding the built in calibration utility: if you think your eyes are better than the factory spectroscopes Apple uses to calibrate their new screens, be my guest.

on principle i would not but a highly speced powerful laptop that cant see fit to put a standard sd card slot .....micro sd ???? etf is it an android tablet or a serious computer ??/ ....its the stupidest thing ive ever read

That reminds of of when I was working in a design studio doing pasteup-mechanicals in the 80s. One of the artists had done a b&w comp of an ad for a client, something changed and the art director said he needed it in color right away, when the art director gets this gleam in his eye and says "just send it out for a color xerox!!!". It took him a moment to realize what he'd just asked for, we never let him forget it.

dealbreaking isnt the issue ... but working up the gear acquisition syndrome excitement require among other things a bit of respect and awe for the decisions the design team made .... not a "what did they do that for " ? or a "how stupid!"

we seem to live in a world were idiotic dongles replace normal expected accessibility... i repeat ... a micro sd card is appropriate in a cheap tablet or some extra phone memory expandability [ which i support fully] not i highend multithousand dollar laptop with a9 prosessor discrete graphic and a tb of ssd ....just sayin ... an unnecessary problem and burden on the user and a pointless and bizarre omission in this class of device.

Again, I wouldn't limit my choices based on such mundane "principles." A computer having or not having an SD slot would not be a deciding factor for me, seeing how trivially easy it is to plug in a USB reader.

And seriously, you don't need to explain what should/shouldn't be on certain devices. We all know what the individual bits are, and what they look like when they are on, or not on, a device.

suntan , the reason why this laptop is even on dp review is due to its extraordinarily high end components ... i do need to list them along side a micro sd reader to highlight the absurdity of it , by juxtaposition

it remains a bizarre and unnecessary omission whatever your feelings on the matter

another reason ins at dp review is the super accurate 4k high quality screen so desired by readers who do mobile photography editing ,making a micro sd rather that a super high end regular sd reader built in even stranger ... the reading of sd media is of strong concern to camera users .... im gonna say bizarre one more time ... cheers

The 4K doesn't require high GPU speed, it requires just lots of VRAM.497 million pixels per second to draw a 4K image. That is easy for 10 years old GPU, but if you don't have VRAM hold it, you can't do it.

Agreed. I have friends that own old Asus Tai Chi laptops and older Zen series that love using them on tethered shoots with Capture One Pro. The screens calibrate well and have a good balance of performance and battery life.

Nothing is perfect but this has few weekness as far as I can tell. It's on my short list.

Time is money and the ability to preview or possibly edit with above average proficiency (even 4k video) can help pros pay for this laptop in a months time or less.

it is absolutely great ... except for the idiocy of micro sd reader in a laptop targeted at the highend professional ... the camera user100% Adobe RGB 4K display is great for many users here , micro sd reader built in ? not so much . and thats the point

it really is ok to have mixed feeling for something ... i think the specs otherwise are awesome .... the screen is insanely awesome but the micro sd choice is bizarre in this class of device

I built my own PC, and it is nice and powerful. But in this day and age with the eGPU option there I am looking for a laptop to do it all.

A laptop gives you that portability for travel, for tethering (even in your own house you might want to change where you are tethered). and of course for those lazy times when you want to do some light editing from your couch, or in a cafe. And then you can also dock it, and use an eGPU and a large display for when you want to get serious (though the GTX1050 is likely enough).

Currently syncing and dealing with a PC and a laptop eco-system is a bit of a pain.

I don’t know. I have a 15 inch MacBook Pro 2017 and if they hadn’t cut down on the weight and thickness it would be a burden to carry around as much as I do. It also fills up a good amount of space on a desk or table. I understand why 15” is generally the industry max for laptops.

I defently happy to see this 6-8 cores on laptop! but 16gb of RAM should be the minumum starting proposition. Modern Windows and browsers are rediculoiusly unoptimised. why 8gb version is present? it was ok for Windows XP 64. It is ok for smartphones, too.

Because the current generation controller only allows for 16GB for LPDDR3, to go above that you would have to use non Low Power memory, which thin-and-light laptop manufacturers don't want to do - it eats more power, which then necessitates a bigger battery or worse runtime.

DDR4, not LPDDR3? If that's truly the case, then the lack of 32GB option really seems like a bit of an oversight. It also makes me question the legitimacy of that 9.5 hr runtime on a 71WHr battery (while powering a 15" IPS and GeForce, no less).

This is not a gaming machine yet a GTX 1050 will still handle games at 1080p quite nicely. 16GB ram is fine, those that say otherwise are just talking bull. Given the form factor a 1050 is about the best you can get.

Finally, no one seems to be complaining about the configuration in the surface pro, surface book or Dell XPS15 etc.

Its about balancing performance, battery life, thermals, and cost.The specification does not seem weird, although the ram capabilities could be a bit better (is it really 16GB limits, or is that just the most fitted as standard? it may have a free slot for upgrade).

A 1050 is an entirely suitable GPU for a LOT of uses, it is hardly low-end for a reasonably thin-light laptop.

Besides, if you are seriously into photography and videography the 1050 is hardly limiting. Most of the programs involved are CPU intensive. If you are a scientist, the CPU is what counts as well for running data analysis, general programming etc. And then there are the thunderbolt 3 ports that will allow for an eGPU.

So it is perfect, the 1050 for on the go, and a 1080Ti and large monitor for when you are home.

Well, one of my RAW processors (Darktable) uses OpenCL to do a lot of the compute, and that can save quite a bit of processing time. And a lot of HPC/technical apps can also take advantage of the GPU.

16GB is enough for some people, not so much for others. Try running multiple virtual machines and you'll very quickly run out of RAM. I've blown out 32GB on occasion (trying to run about half a dozen VM's as an in-node cluster for software development.

I'll grant that the GTX1050 will be good enough for a lot of applications. The 16GB (apparently hard) limit is quite another matter.

I'll grant that I've gotten used to 17" laptops, 6 TB total storage, gobs of RAM, and all that. The size and weight doesn't bother me. For a fast (and power hungry) processor, I'd prefer the 17" form factor. The CPU will run faster with better cooling.

And more importantly it has a bad reputation for shipping machines with significantly problematic drivers for say the sound card, an SD card slot, video card, etc Then Asus isn't well known for posting updated drivers for download.

Looks great, but if they really wanted to target photo professionals they would have chosen a different aspect ratio. 16:9 is just not ideal on a mobile device, since you are limited in width, and want as much height as you can with that width.

Apple always had a taller 16:10 aspect ratio, which is great for productivity, and Microsoft has gone a step further with their surface laptop and their surface book and gone to 3:2. I think future notebooks should adopt the 3:2 format, if you ever used it you would never want to go back

@HowaboutRAWNo they don't, but i don't know any portable notebook that does. The problem here is that the intel gpu doesn't support 10bit, so you would need to deactivate optimus automatic switching.Then you would need a quadro card, since the consumer GPUs only support 10bit in DirectX but not in OpenGL, which all editing software uses. And then you would need 10bit software, adobes attempt is half baked and doesn't work flawless and most other software like capture one doesn't even support 10bit.

I have both a MacBook Pro and surface and prefer the aspect ratio of the former for photo editing; it's just the right width to have a photo open with the Lightroom control bar along the side. On my surface I just end up with wasted space above and below the photo.

This is a very tempting laptop to replace my good old Macbook Pro mid-2012 (non-Retina). As an Apple user (MBP 2012, Mac Pro 2009, iPhone) none of their recent computers (or phones) includes all the ports a professional requires, due to their silly quest for design rather than usability. I'd hate to rely on adapters. Kudos to Asus for keeping Type-A USB ports and HDMI. I hope the touchpad will be as comfortable as Apple's . If that's the case, Apple might have lost one customer.

Not if the screen is limited by it's width. Than a 3:2 screen would show a 16:9 video at the same size a 16:9 screen would. So it depends on what you see is the limiting factor.

I think regarding portability notebooks are limited by width an should have taller aspect ratio at a set width.Desktops on the other hand are ergonomically limited in height (looking up/down is really straining for your neck) so at a given height they should be as wide as possible. (Alternatively you can use multiple monitors side by side)

On the assumption you want the base size to match the screen size I think laptops are fairly limited height wise. Even a standard 15" laptop is already a struggle to get on many train/plane/cafe tables.

@DheorlTrue, but 15" inch laptops are not portable in my opinion. In my opinion the width of an 13.3 inch notebook is already the limit, and with that width you could get away with taller aspect ratios.

Fair enough. Tbh I find if there's not room for my MBP (fairly slender by 15" standards) then there's probably not room for me to comfortably use a laptop anyway, but I guess if you just want it for simple media consumption or whatever then it's a different matter.

@HowaboutRAWYou can only see the difference if the software and the OS support 10bit. So can you even select 30bit mode in the adobe software on the MBP? Otherwise the discussio is pretty pointless. So which software do you use that supports 10bit?

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